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Dream Girl

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1hr 30min
Genres:
Drama,Sci-Fi
Release:
1948
Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Starring:
Betty Hutton, MacDonald Carey, Patric Knowles  ...more
Synopsis: Elmer Rice's clever stage comedy Dream Girl is Hollywoodized and "dumbed down" almost beyond recognition in this 1948 film version. In place of the original play's Betty Field, Betty Hutton stars Georgina Allerton, who periodically escapes her humdrum existence by retreating into elaborate daydreams. Georgina's fantasy excursions disturb her parents (Walter Abel and Peggy Wood) and her married sister (Virginia Field), who wish that she'd grow up already and stop all this nonsense. Only when she falls ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The Hollywood practice of paying a large sum of money for a stage property and then jettisoning many of the elements which made it a success is evidenced in Dream Girl. An amusing but rather delicate play, Dream Girl was cheapened, coarsened and "dumbed down" on its way to the big screen. The basic concept -- a young woman find escape from the hum drum reality of the every day world by way of involved ... Full Review
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Betty Hutton
Georgina Allerton
MacDonald Carey
Clark redfield
Patric Knowles
Jim Lucas
Virginia Field
Miriam Allerton Lucas
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